Bathroom Remodeling in Roswell, GA

Bathroom Remodeling for Roswell homes

Roswell's population multiplied between 1970 and 2000, and the housing records that growth. Martin's Landing and Brookfield Country Club date mostly to the late 1970s; Horseshoe Bend, Saddle Creek, Loch Highland and Wildwood Springs filled in through the 1980s; Barrington Farms and Edenwilde followed in the 1990s. Much of that stock is wood-sided or wood-trimmed, with cedar, hardboard and brick fronts, and the rolling ground that falls toward the river and the creeks gives many lots a slope and a walk-out basement. Older still is the historic district: the Mill Village around Sloan Street, where some millworker housing dates to the 1850s, and the blocks along Canton Street and Mimosa Boulevard, with old wood, plaster and many layers of earlier paint. Newer infill townhomes, such as Harlow and Ashbury, are the exception rather than the rule. For painting and remodeling that adds up to a lot of carpentry before paint, decks and siding at replacement age, and kitchens and baths on their first or second remodel.

Areas we work in Roswell

• Martin's Landing
• Horseshoe Bend
• Brookfield Country Club
• Barrington Farms
• Saddle Creek
• Mill Village

Near Bulloch Hall, Barrington Hall, Roswell Mill ruins and the Vickery Creek trails and across the rest of Roswell.

Bathroom Remodeling on Roswell houses

The bathrooms most Roswell owners want redone are 1980s primary baths: a large garden tub on a tiled deck, a separate shower with a fiberglass or tile pan, cultured marble vanity tops and a wall of mirror. Homes in Horseshoe Bend, Highland Colony and Wildwood Springs have plenty of them, and the usual job pulls out the tub, builds a larger walk-in shower and replaces the vanity. Hall baths in the same houses are smaller and more straightforward. In older Mill Village and Canton Street homes, bathrooms were often fitted later into tight spaces, so layout and plumbing access drive the plan more than finishes do.

What usually gets missed

The big hidden issue in a 1980s bath is water damage under the shower and around the tub deck. Decades of small leaks can leave the subfloor soft and the framing stained or rotted, and it only shows once the tile is up. We press the floor for give and look from the basement or crawlspace below before pricing. A new shower also needs a real waterproofing membrane behind the tile; many original builds relied on tile and grout alone.